Video of Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier from Walt Disney Co, 1955.
The vast view still captures the wild frontier and fertile land that held so much promise for those who once sailed across the sea with only their dreams and treasured culture to guide them.
In his new book, Born On A Mountaintop: On The Road with Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of the Wild Frontier, author Bob Thompson follows in the footsteps of the famous frontiersman in a quest to answer the question, why has the legend of Davy Crockett endured?
Even before the mortgage mess created havoc in the financial markets, and throughout those Wild West frontier days of mortgage financing in the late 1990s and early-to-mid 2000s, there were mortgage application documents.
Whatever steps are taken, or probably not taken, the key task remains that set out in Ehud Yaari's January report, as he put it, "to minimise the risk of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty imploding under the pressures of the wild Sinai frontier".
America's biggest left-coast state is no longer the wild and exciting frontier.
Its frontier areas are largely wild and barely inhabited stretches of desert and jungle.
Welcome to the final frontier in fossil fuels, the wild card in climate change theories and the dark horse in the scramble to secure access to clean energy.
But a lag in regulation is common when there is radical change, and it no more devalues financial innovations than Wild West lawlessness devalued the settlement of the frontier.
We are living in the Wild West of On Demand TV and which section of the frontier a company commands will tell a lot about how prosperous its future will be.
It is not wild-eyed to view South-East Asia as a last frontier, with a lot of fresh ears waiting to hear Beethoven.
My point is not that the digital frontier is ungovernable, or should be left a kind of Wild West ruled at gunpoint by vigilantes and posses.
It was a fitting finale to the journey: Turkey's eastern border, perhaps to be Europe's new eastern frontier, ancient churches and mosques rising like tombstones out of the long wild grass.
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